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Best Carrot Cake Sheet Cake Recipe

April 3, 2019 by Stephanie Brubaker 5 Comments

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Best Carrot Cake Sheet Cake Recipe

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Best Carrot Cake Sheet Cake Recipe
Serves 24
Prep time 20 minutes
Cook time 18 minutes
Total time 38 minutes
Meal type Dessert
Misc Child Friendly, Freezable, Gourmet, Pre-preparable
Occasion Easter
This is the Best Carrot Cake Sheet Cake Recipe ever! It's moist and fluffy, topped with the most incredible cream cheese frosting! Great for Easter dessert!

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 cup oil (any mild flavored oil is fine)
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 5 eggs
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/8 teaspoon cloves
  • 2/3 cups buttermilk
  • 1lb fresh grated carrots

Frosting

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened)
  • 8oz cream cheese (softened)
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Cake
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350
In a large mixing bowl, beat together oil, sugars, and vanilla.
Mix in eggs, one at a time.
Step 2
In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.
Step 3
Add half of the butter milk to the oil and sugar mixture and mix well.
Then add half of the flour mixture, mixing slowly.
Repeat until everything is mixed well.
Step 4
Stir in grated carrots and pour batter into well greased 12x18x1" sheet pan.
Bake 16-19 minutes or until tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean or with moist (not wet) crumbs. Allow to cool completely.
Frosting
Step 5
In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and cream cheese until very fluffy and smooth.
Step 6
Add vanilla and sugar and beat on low until incorporated. Beat on high for 3 minutes or until very fluffy and creamy.
Spread over cooled cake.
Store covered at room temperature up to 24 hours or refrigerated for up to 5 days.

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Comments

  1. Rose Martine says

    January 8, 2020 at 11:08 pm

    Wow! That looks super delicious! Great recipe!

    Reply
  2. Ellen says

    April 13, 2019 at 2:25 am

    How long should a 13×9 cake bake?

    Reply
    • Stephanie Brubaker says

      April 15, 2019 at 8:35 am

      I would start testing at 25 minutes. Enjoy!

      Reply
  3. Mandy says

    April 3, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    I think I’m missing something. Where is the recipe?

    Reply
    • Stephanie Brubaker says

      April 11, 2019 at 1:22 pm

      If you scroll down past the photos, it’s there at the end of the post. Hope you enjoy!

      Reply

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